Larry Mullen
U2 is a rock band from Dublin, Ireland.
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy.
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy.
You, you said you'd wait till the end of the world.
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind:
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme.
I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cos tonight,
We can be as one, tonight.
Love don't need to find a way
You find your own way
I forget that I can't stay
And so I say that
All roads lead to where you are.
Love makes strange enemies
Makes love where love may please
The soul and its striptease
Hate brought to its knees
The sky over our head
We can reach it from our bed
You let me in your heart
And out of my head, head.
Take these hands
Teach them what to carry.
Take these hands
Don't make a fist.
Take this mouth
So quick to criticize
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss.
And in the world, a heart of darkness, a fire-zone
Where poets speak their heart then bleed for it.
I tied myself with wire
To let the horses roam free
Playing with the fire
Until the fire played with me.
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?
And a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world.
Don't believe the devil
I don't believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up.
Don't believe in excess
Success is to give
Don't believe in riches
But you should see where I live.
I, I believe in love.
I watched the way it was
The way it was when he was with us
And I really don't mind
Sleeping on the floor
But I couldn't sleep after what I saw
I wrote this letter to tell you
The way I feel.
Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white,
Arms entwined, the chosen few.
The newspapers says, says
Say it's true it's true...
And we can break through.
Though torn in two,
We can be one.
You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table.
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it.
Don't say that later will be better now,
You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it.
I try to sing this song
I, I try to stand up
But I can't find my feet.
I, I try to speak up
But only in you I'm complete.
Early morning, April four
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride.
Sleep comes like a drug in God's country
Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country.
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough I'm not giving up
On a miracle drug.
Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die.